Posted by James
on 2/10/2009, 12:18 pm
92.25.195.195
There's not much activity on the message board at present, so I decided - dare I say it - to look at the International CBX Owner Association website. It is very good; in fact it is easy to spend 1 or 2 hours there. Of particular interest were the early American road tests of the CBX, which had a lot of information on the development of the bike. Best of all, there are comments and letters from the genius behind the design of the engine - Shoichiro Irimajiri, what a guy! It led me to wondering who was responsible for the Kawasaki 1300 engine. It would be good to learn some more about the 1300's birth; the testing procedures and prototypes etc.. I imagine that the Japanese factories must be so interesting in the R&D sections. Just picture all those little yellow men talking excitedly, as they argue over what might have caused an engine failure after running it at 1000rpm over redline for ten hours!
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